Nepal

Kathmandu, June 1

Amidst increasing intra-party rift in the ruling Nepal Communist portiony (NCP), its central secretariat assembly scheduled for Monday shall be finalising the names of in-charges and co-in-charges of the partydistrict committees.

Even one year after the two communist parties -msprint; the then CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre -msprint; merged, the unification process has much been totald.

According to an NCP source, the partymost powerful nine-member central secretariat has prepared the list of in-charges and coin-charges of all 77 district committees.

&But, all the names shall be disstubborn between partytwo Co-chairs, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Shovepa Kamal Dahal tomorrow and they shall make the final decision.

Mondaycentral secretariat assembly shall announce the names of in-charges and co-in-charges of the districts committees,& a senior leader said.

According to him, the criteria for naming the in-charges and co-in-charges of the partydistrict committees has already been set. &If the in-charge is chooseed from the then CPN- UML, co-in-change shall be member of the then CPN-Maoist Centre and vice-versa,& he said. Seniority of leaders shall also be considered for head ing the committees, he added.

The party had already announced chairs and secretaries of all the district committees.

Amuchher major ccorridorenge facing the merger is factional rift in the leadership.

KP Oli, Dahal and amuchher senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are competing to appoint their aides in the committees and other important posts.

The party is yet to form its sister wings including a Madhes Committee.

The party is finalising a 147-member politburo. The partyeight central agencies are yet to be formed.

The provincial council and relation coordination committee are also yet to be formed.

The party is working to form international coordination committee as well.

Inter-party wrangling has already surfaced among Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, senior leader Bam Dev Gautam and General Secretary Bishnu Poudel, with each of them claiming leadership of the organisation department, the most powerful department of the party.

The central secretariat assembly was supposed to be held nowadays. But the two cochairs were occupied with their daily schedules. So, the party has scheduled its assembly two days later.

According to measure party leaders, the partytop leaders have been avoiding casual speechs.

Bishnu Rijal, a central committee member said &Top leaders should hold casual speechs as that helps in forging consensus.&

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Kathmandu, May 31

Doctors shall now have to atendere by a new rule to get their licences resumeed.

Nepal Medical Council has decided to introduce a new rule to update doctors& seliminates through Continuous Professional Development programme.

Both MBBS and specialists shall now have to attend courses worth 100 points, out of which 30 points are for a mandatory training programme on basic life support, medical ethics, communication seliminates, rational use of drugs, and contaminateion prevention and control.

Italso mandatory for the dentists to attend courses on medical emergencies. The rest 70 points shall be based on research, seminars, trainings, conferences, books and articles written by the doctors on areas of their choices.

&If the doctors fail to meet the requirements, their licences shall much be resumeed,& said Chairman at Nepal Medical Council Dharma Kanta Banskota. The doctors should get 100 points in five years. We need to test the seliminates of doctors time and again,& added Banskota.

&We are trying to update seliminates of the doctors as per the international standard so as to supply quality health services for the people. The doctors should enhance their knowledge and seliminates as there is an ongoing change in medical field. It shall help the patients to avail themselves of quality health services,& he added.

CPD shall start after five years as we need to train at least 50 per cent of the doctors in the first phase, said Banskota. Currently, about 23,000 doctors with licence are practising medicine in the country.

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Kathmandu, May 29

Visitors and patients of National Trauma Centre and Bir Hospital are facing difficulties parking vehicles as these government hospitals lack parking spaces.

Security guards standing at the entrance of Trauma Centre ‘instruct& hospital visitors to park their vehicles in open spaces in Khulamanch.

Bir hospital has deployed a security guard to protect vehicles of its employees and the visitors in Khulamanch.

The hospital claimed it had signed an agreement with Kathmandu Metropolitan City to use the open space of Khulamanch.

&We have an agreement with KMC for parking vehicles,& said Kedar Prasad Century, director at the hospital.

KMC, however, denies that such an agreement has been reached with the hospital. &We have given permission to the hospital to store its construction fabrics as the hospital building is being reconstructed.

The permission to use the open space of Khulamanch was given on humanitarian grounds,& said Ishwor Man Dangol, KMC spokesperson.

As the hospital lacks parking space, employees have been using the parking space of National Trauma Centre. The parking space is much enough to accommodate vehicles of visitors.

&As Bir hospital has no parking spaces of its own, the parking lot of trauma centre is used by Bir hospital employees. This has reduced parking space for visitors& vehicles. That is why the public are much allowed to park their vehicles in our parking space,& said Gunaraj Bhattarai, section officer at Trauma Centre. He added that patients had to park at Khulamanch.

Bir hospital has around 2,000 employees and its visitors& flow is also high.

&The problem with parking shall be solved after the construction of the new building is totald,& guaranteed Century.

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Kathmandu, May 31

A group of lawyers nowadays formed Independent National Lawyers& Campaign, which they said shall function as a parallel Nepal Bar Association.

INLC member Advocate Swagat Nepal said lawyers associated with the new campaign took the move as politicisation of NBA was hindering the lawyers& umbrella body from playing an active role to control anomalies in the judiciary, effectively. He said NBA leaders, who had won the election, were trying to show their loyalty to the political parties openly and, therefore, he and his friends decided to develop INLC as a neutral organisation.

INLC formed under the chairmanship of lawyer Narayan Prasad Duwadi has Punam Kumari Thakur Jha as vice-chair and Anil Upadhyay as general secretary. Shambhu Upadhyay has been named as secretary and Sharada Chaulagain (Chandra) as the treadegreer of the newly formed organisation. Dinesh Raj Satyal, Sher Bahadur Dhungana, Toyanath Dhungana and Ramhari Giri are among the 610 members of the organisation.

Nepal said his organisation would soon launch a drive to expand its units in all district of the country.

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